Microsoft To Buy Powerset? Not Just Yet. — VentureBeat is reporting that Microsoft has agreed to buy semantic search engine Powerset for somewhere around $100 million, which is the price we previously reported was being offered to the company. — Our sources have been saying this deal …

Internet overhaul wins approval — A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris. — The net's regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called “top-level” domain names, such as .com or .uk.

MICROSOFT.COM POWERED BY HYPER-V — Hi—I am Rob Emanuel, a Technology Architect on the Microsoft.com Operations team focusing on virtualization. I wanted to share the great progress we have made rolling out Hyper-V since my first blog a month ago. In that blog I discussed our success …

The First Test App For MySpace Data Availability — The CrunchBase guys (thanks Henry and Mark) have been hacking away at the newly launched MySpace Data Availability APIs to create a test application that is now working, at techcrunch.com/myspace/app.php. You can sign into the account using …

Google Tests the New iGoogle — Announced in April, the new version of iGoogle that brings social applications is tested in a small number of randomly selected Google accounts. — The new iGoogle places the tabs on the left-hand side of the page and you can expand the tabs to see the list …

Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever — Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft's success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world …

Yahoo's Loser Board — Russ Mitchell is not surprised. One way to compare the quality of Yahoo's board of directors to Microsoft's: look at the outside directors and the other public boards they sit on and see how they've performed. Take each company and compare its stock charts …

I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch — It used to be that just the entertainment industries wanted to control your computers — and televisions and iPods and everything else — to ensure that you didn't violate any copyright rules. But now everyone else wants to get their hooks into your gear.